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Any thoughts on https://www.spacemacs.org/ https://www.spacemacs.org/ ? It improves discoverability of hotkeys and packages for me.

• mroll 6y ago
  Hah, yeah. I used spacemacs for 2 years from summer 2018 until about two weeks ago. And you're right! It does incredible things for discoverability with the built in hydra integration. I switched to Doom Emacs about two weeks ago because it's built to be more performant and the configuration is meant to be a thinner layer. Even with spacemacs layers, one has to go hunting on the googles and spend a bunch of time tweaking things if the layer doesn't set things up perfectly out of the box. And it rarely does. Overall, I think spacemacs and doom emacs are amazing. Huge steps up from the base install. I just think there is a long way to go still.
• bananaface 6y ago
  I use Spacemacs. It's horrible. It's: - Bloated - Slow - Encourages you to lock your personal configuration into the Spacemacs ecosystem, rather than writing it in generic Elisp so you can easily extract it (why I still use it). - Introduces ridiculous abstractions that aren't necessary, just so they can put "spacemacs" in front of the variable name. - Hasn't released to the master branch in 2 or 3 years (!) - Consequenty breaks regularly when you use the rolling release (which you pretty much have to do) - Has an unresponsive owner who doesn't want to hand the project off to someone else (or hasn't found someone) - Sets up weird default behaviour that's very difficult to disable - Has awful defaults for most languages anyway. Their Python layer is terrible, the features are extremely limited and it often doesn't work. Doom is a much better starter pack.